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by blueyes 2y ago
My current version of "it's not who you know, it's ..." ends with "it's who wants to work with you again." Which is another way of saying that whether you're moving up, down or sideways on a job, doin
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rule of thumb: questions in a headline precede articles without answers.
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The most dangerous delusions are high-status delusions.
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"Reading and writing more" are just aspirations. Those don't translate well to new behaviors. BJ Fogg (Stanford prof, behavioral scientist) lays out how to build new behaviors in Tiny Habits. You need to make them easy and at
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by blueyes 2y ago
I play this game. https://www.endeavorotc.com Duke replicated Gazzaley's results. The first section of his book is good at explaining attention: https://www.amazon.com/Distracted-Mind-Ancient-Brains-High-T..
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by blueyes 2y ago
There's a tautological undercurrent to this piece. Matt Levine is rare because he has certain characteristics, which are rare. It misses a larger point which is that advertisers pay for readers who are interested in financial content,
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My personal goal is to make my mental happenings more visible in order to understand where I get off track while tackling a task. I think knowledge work in general is plagued by the intangibility of the processes that lead to its artifacts.
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You should start by caring about something so much that you want to both understand it and affect it somehow. When you begin to piece together the system, a model of what you care about, and can begin to imagine how moving one piece will af
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by blueyes 2y ago
I have been directly involved in deals involving Palantir and I can say that their sales force, at least in Europe, is sociopathic. They play very dirty, both with their customers and amongst themselves. On top of that, I'm not particu
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Attention is good. Building the habit of paying attention is hard. Many people who get good at meditation underestimate the effort required. Highly recommend BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits for more on how to get started on anything important. S
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Dance requires balance and often involves social interaction, while lots of physical exercise does not. Balance and more precisely imbalance is a good way to stimulate adrenaline in the brain, which can accelerate learning. Claude Shannon,
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Steve Allen's "How to be funny" presents a compelling model of humor as a deliberate misinterpretation of the setup, which is delivered in the punchline. So you have initial context, pivot, and misinterpretation. The most pow
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Promising an end to slavery is a great way to conquer a place. Napoleon followed the same game plan, and in a way, so did Lenin.
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Remember when one of the bill's co-sponsors announced that he was co-founding an AI regulation company called Gray Swan? https://www.piratewires.com/p/sb-1047-dan-hendrycks-conflict... This bill was tainted from d
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by blueyes 2y ago
And it's closer to Frisian than Dutch. If the Battle of Hastings hadn't happened, these languages would be easily and mutually comprehensible. But that just shows that English descends from a branch of West Germanic. It changed gr
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Peter Green's translations of Homer are excellent but ommitted from this roundup: https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-New-Translation-Peter-Green/dp/...
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The oblivion of addiction would explain most peoples' not using the tools. First, you have to admit that you have a problem.
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The irony is that the same underlying process of technical and scientific innovation enabled both the Peruvian slaves traders as well as the Haber-Bosch process. But I find it strange that we only call one "European", when in fact
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This is dumb. It's kind of like saying: "once more processing power is no longer useful, we will no longer need our large human brains." SOTA will remain at the edge of what compute can produce for a long time to come. SOTA i
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by blueyes 2y ago
She did her job, and she went home. Not much hustle there. Maybe there's grind, but yeah, I believe there are fundamental scarcities in life that require we do hard things to make a living. I don't have much empathy for people who
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by blueyes 2y ago
This embodies a culture of dignity, which I admire, and contrasts with a culture of offense and complaint, which seems prevalent today. In a culture of dignity, you take back power to define your worth, and fight less with others about opin
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Unminification (obfuscation removal) can also be applied to text. Most specialties develop a jargon that allows insiders to communicate complex ideas quickly; that shorthand excludes outsiders. Large language models can make specialist jarg
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Yes, while working and raising a young boy. I just needed to escape the hellish pressure of having raised millions to build a business that didn't work, and worrying about my obligations to investors and the team members I hired. It wa
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I would love to know what this research surfaces about aphantasic brains and their opposites.
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I got super burned out working in startups for about 8 years. didn't realize it on the inside. now that i'm out, i look back and realize i was in a constant state of stress and anxiety. i got my sleep back, started exercising, sta
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by blueyes 2y ago
While this article may be making a good point, in its construction it's quite weak. It reminds of something an old reporter once told me: "Any article whose headline is a question, fails to answer that question." Corollary: I
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what is the currency now?
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I think this is true for most careers and prominent roles: "When I first came to The Times in 2006, a reporter warned me not to identify myself too heavily with my work. “Any job at The Times is a rented tux,” she said." https:&#
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My personal belief: Because the enterprise market, separating as it does the user from the buyer, creates incentives that lead to bad products.
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This is only tangential, but Adam Gazzaley's The Distracted Mind (2016, MIT Press) provides an excellent anatomy of focus and attention, working memory, goal management and overall cognitive control, then places them in the context of

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